 | Warner 'Pushing Daisies' on Blu-ray this Fall (High-Def Digest, 5/23/2008 10:00pm) |
| Warner has announced their latest TV-on-high-def release, bringing the comedy hit 'Pushing Daisies' to Blu-ray this September. A critical and audience hit for ABC last Fall, the Barry Sonnenfeld-produced... ... (Read Full Article) |
 | Sharp's AQUOS LC-32GS is (Technology news, 12/12/2006 7:03am) |
| Filed under: Displays, HDTV We've seen more than our share of 32-inchpanels pushing a 1366x768 pixel resolution. Fine, that works. However, just as... ... (Read Full Article) |
 | ESPN to broadcast "Battle for No. 1" in HDTV (PGA Tour, 3/22/2005 2:34pm) |
| ST. AUGUSTINE, Fla. –- The thrill of victory is often enhanced when the very best players compete at the highest level, pushing themselves, and their sport, to new heights. (Read Full Article) |
| (Unranked) | Blu-ray Disc Association Ponders 4K Blu-rays (High-Def Digest, 1/30/2013 8:00pm) |
| Though packing 4K content onto a Blu-ray disc should be possible, there's a lot to think about before going forward. At this point, the 4K revolution seems inevitable. The industry is pushing for it [...] (Read Full Article) |
 | Toshiba Joining Blu-ray Bandwagon? (Home Media Magazine, 6/24/2009 7:38pm) |
| Toshiba Corp., which spent more than $1 billion pushing HD DVD in a losing cause, reportedly is considering supporting erstwhile high-definition format rival Blu-ray Disc. ... (Read Full Article) |
 | Ottawa pushing for HDTV (Fort Frances Times, 6/13/2005 8:56pm) |
| Canadian television broadcasters and producers must work faster to adopt high-definition technology or viewers will look elsewhere for their programming, Canada s heritage minister told the industry s top executives yesterday. ... (Read Full Article) |
 | Is It Time to Buy That 50-Inch Plasma TV? (RedNova, 11/20/2005 10:35pm) |
| By Keith Reed, The Boston Globe Nov. 20--Should you or shouldn't you this holiday season? New brands, deep discounts, and increased production are pushing prices of high-definition television sets even lower this year. ... (Read Full Article) |
 | Optical disc deal (Australian IT, 2/13/2006 1:22pm) |
| TOSHIBA, which is pushing its HD DVD format for high-definition discs, has signed an agreement with LG Electronics to share patents for optical disc drives, players and recorders. ... (Read Full Article) |
 | Weekly Top 10: 3G iPhone, HP 2133, MGS4 PS3 (I4U, 4/13/2008 2:00pm) |
| Sony is pushing the Blu-ray capabilities of the Sony PS3 forward with the
upcoming firmware 2.30.
Additionally Sony revealed details this week about the
Metal Gear Solid 4 launch
in June.
The rumors of an 3G
... ... (Read Full Article) |
 | Tweeter Shares Surge on Sales Projection (AP via Yahoo! Finance, 1/10/2006 3:31pm) |
| Tweeter Home Entertainment Group Inc.'s cost-cutting efforts and strengthening sales should boost financial results this year, an analyst said Monday, pushing the company's stock price up sharply. ... (Read Full Article) |
 | Wii Dominates April, PS3 & Xbox 360 In Dead Heat On GTA IV Sales [Console Wars] (Kotaku, 5/15/2008 10:40pm) |
| Nintendo had an amazing April, pushing over 700,000 Wiis in the United States. That's a massive difference from its "current gen high definition console" competition, as the Xbox 360 and PlayStation... ... (Read Full Article) |
 | GE quietly delays premium HDTV line (Engadget, 3/25/2009 2:04am) |
| General Electric came clean with its intentions to delve into the wide world of HDTVs last September... and then the economy, as well as GE itself, fell apart. Earlier this year, we were actually clued in on some of the details surrounding the Tatung-built sets, but now we're hearing that the company is pushing everything back by around three months. GE maintains that the setback is due to "mark ... (Read Full Article) |
 | CEA Head Gary Shapiro Asks Broadcasters to Support an Analog Cut-off Date and Promote over-the-Air Broadcasting (Business Wire via Yahoo! Finance, 4/19/2005 3:31pm) |
| The broadcast industry should stop pushing for regulations on other industries, "remove its shackles" and market the value of its digital service to consumers, said Consumer Electronics Association President and CEO Gary Shapiro. (Read Full Article) |
 | Discovery Channel's 'Human Body' Coming to Blu-ray (High-Def Digest, 4/07/2008 10:00pm) |
| The Discovery Channel is set to go where no high-def release has gone before with the Blu-ray debut of its controversial four-part series 'Human Body: Pushing the Limits this July.' Taking viewers across... ... (Read Full Article) |
 | 3D HDTV without glasses? Hitachi has a prototype display for that. (Home Theater, 10/18/2009 1:22pm) |
| If we’re going to have to put up with 3D being the next big thing in HDTVs, the least we can hope for is that we’re not stuck wearing those plastic glasses on our sofas for the next 50 years. While that’s exactly what Panasonic and other 3D proponents are pushing with their new sets [...] (Read Full Article) |
| (Unranked) | PlayMemories Studio update for PS3 brings 4K image support, cloud features and more (Engadget, 12/19/2012 2:37pm) |
| Sony has been continually pushing its (Read Full Article) |
 | TV Broadcasters Set Digital Deadline (NewsFactor via Yahoo! News, 7/13/2005 5:26pm) |
| Local TV broadcasters are prepared to make the switch to digital and bring an end to analog programming within four years, pushing back a prior deadline for the conversion. The timetable could change, though, as there are issues yet to be ironed out to make the transition easier for all parties. ... (Read Full Article) |
 | Paramount Bumps 'Star Trek: Season 2' HD DVD (High-Def Digest, 2/13/2008 11:00pm) |
| Paramount has set phasers to "delay" for 'Star Trek: The Original Series - Season Two,' pushing back its planned March HD DVD debut to this Summer. As we reported last November, Paramount had... ... (Read Full Article) |
 | Sony Postpones 'Godzilla' Blu-ray (High-Def Digest, 2/11/2008 11:00pm) |
| Sony has announced a street date postponement for 'Godzilla,' pushing back its planned March Blu-ray debut to tweak the disc's bonus features. As we've previously reported, Sony first announced back in... ... (Read Full Article) |
 | Buy One HD DVD and Receive a Second for Free on Amazon (I4U, 12/27/2007 5:19pm) |
| Amazon is pushing HD DVD again hard. Right now they offer again the 'buy one HD DVD and receive a second for free' promotion and 30% off new HD DVDs.
The offer is limited to two of each title per customer and 20 free titles per order. The list of HD D... ... (Read Full Article) |
| (Unranked) | Staples selling 3D Systems' Cube printer online, select retail availability starting in June (Engadget, 5/03/2013 3:36pm) |
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Staples is pushing its consumer printing offerings into the third dimension. The office supply [...] (Read Full Article) |
 | Paramount Delays 'Into the Wild,' 'Things We Lost in the Fire' HD DVDs (High-Def Digest, 1/10/2008 9:24pm) |
| Paramount has announced a street date delay for its HD DVD releases of 'Into the Wild' and 'Things We Lost in the Fire,' pushing both titles back to early March. As we've previously reported, the studio... ... (Read Full Article) |
 | Toshiba Delays HD-DVD Player Until Mid-April (I4U, 3/23/2006 8:42am) |
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Because the Warner delayed the release of their HD DVD discs now Toshiba announces to they delay the release of the HD-A1 player as well.
Video Business reports that Toshiba is pushing back the launch of their HD DVD Player to mid-April.
HD DVD... ... (Read Full Article) |
 | Standards group pushing for single Blu-ray licensing organisation (Tech Digest, 3/06/2008 9:36am) |
| Now
that Blu-ray has successfully crushed that young HD DVD upstart 'neath its
sizeable heel, there's that whole messy business of streamlining the business
into something workable - you know, so that you won't need to sell off a spare
kidney to buy a player and that a movie collection won't cost you the remaining
one. One idea being aired by MPEG LA, the standards and licensing group, is ... (Read Full Article) |
 | Lionsgate to feature advanced interactivity on future Blu-ray films (HDTV UK, 12/17/2007 8:00am) |
| Lionsgate is pushing ahead with its plans for interactive content on forthcoming Blu-ray titles, claiming that its next two titles will "push the limits of next-gen interactivity", with features never before seen on Blu-ray titles.
Admittedly, that's not a particularly difficult achievement to hit, given that there are precious few interactive Blu-ray titles at present, thanks to the scramble ... (Read Full Article) |
 | Is it time to buy that 50-inch plasma TV? (Boston Globe, 11/20/2005 7:49am) |
| Should you or shouldn't you this holiday season? New brands, deep discounts, and increased production are pushing prices of high-definition television sets even lower this year. Consider: Circuit City is offering a 42-inch Samsung plasma for $2,700, slashing $800 off the regular price, and Best Buy is peddling newcomer Maxent's 42-inch, HD-ready plasma for $1,800. And last month, Fujitsu of ... ... (Read Full Article) |
 | Panasonic pushing Blu-ray envelope with 3D standard proposal (HDTV UK, 11/27/2008 12:22pm) |
| Panasonic has submitted its proposal for a 3D Blu-ray standard to the Blu-ray Disc Association. The standard would offer guidelines for creating "left/right-eye two-channel full HD images". Panasonic's director of AV developments, Hiroshi Miyai, said that the changes should be quite simple, claiming that the discs would simply need some kind of flag to identify image data, equipment and other e ... (Read Full Article) |
 | Intel, Adobe plan a chicken in every pot, Flash on every HDTV (Engadget, 1/05/2009 9:19am) |
| Intel's been talking up the CE 3100 (née Canmore) processor for quite some time now, and with Adobe as its newest partner -- late again Yahoo? -- pushing HD Flash streams to Internet connected TV's and set-top boxes. Frankly, we've already gotten quite used to YouTube and other online video access in the living room, but with the first Flash Lite-enabled system-on-a-chip due by mid-2009 and eve ... (Read Full Article) |
 | TV execs don't care whether or not the Broadcast Flag makes watching TV more frustrating (Engadget, 5/25/2005 8:58am) |
| It’s no secret that the networks are hell-bent on pushing through the Broadcast Flag , which they think will help prevent piracy of digital TV shows, but you won’t believe how a TV industry exec responded to Mike Godwin from Public Knowledge, one of the groups fighting the rule, during a talk he was giving about the rule. Godwin complained that one of the more negative implications of the ... (Read Full Article) |
 | LCD panel makers expect TV panel market to almost double next year (AnandTech, 12/01/2005 3:35pm) |
| DigiTimes reports that the LCD TV market is expected to nearly double next year.  Lower prices and larger panel sizes are pushing these puppies into the mainstream. I can attest to that as I was able to pickup a 27" 16:9 HDTV LCD for $400 after rebate during Black Friday: AU Optronics (AUO) expects the market to nearly double to... ... (Read Full Article) |
 | 3DVR + haptics help rehabilitate stroke patients (Engadget, 5/27/2005 2:52pm) |
| Recovering stroke patients at the University of Southern California are getting rehabilitated virtual reality-style via the combination of 3D visualization and haptics. Software environments are designed to challenge patients with “cyber tasks†such as grasping, pinching, squeezing, throwing and pushing, depending on the impairment. Patients don various input devices such as the “cyber grasp ... (Read Full Article) |
 | CMO's QFHD 56-inch LCD display (Engadget, 9/29/2005 11:37am) |
| Hi-def schmi-def. Chi Mei Optoelectronics just upped the ante with their 56-inch quad full high-definition (QFHD) display, rocking a 3840x2160 resolution—8.29 million pixels for those of you keeping track. The LCD display, which they claim is the highest resolution 56-incher around, is powered by 24.8 million transistors pushing 1.4GB a second of high resolution goodness. We’ll leave it up to ... (Read Full Article) |
 | Amazon on Demand comes to ‘09 Panasonic Blu-ray players (CrunchGear, 8/04/2009 11:30pm) |
| You gotta love automatic updates the bring new features to Blu-ray players. Panasonic is pushing out new firmware for its '09 Blu-ray lineup that adds Amazon on Demand to the already impressive extras of YouTube, Picasa, Bloomberg, and weather info. Oh, and that little portable Blu-ray player (BD15) also gains this ability along with the DMP-BD60, BD70V, and BD80. So once these players are graced with the update sometime today, users will have access to 45,000 SD titles and 1,000 HD titles. What's there not to love? (Read Full Article) |
 | Does the Samsung Instinct HD really shoot HD video? (Consumer Reports, 10/08/2009 7:02pm) |
| The Samsung Instinct HD. [PHOTO courtesy of Samsung] The Samsung Instinct HD, available from Sprint for $250 with a two-year contract after a $100 mail-in rebate, is the first cell phone we've seen that claims to make high-definition video recordings. It also boasts a 5-megapixel still camera with flash. That camera is a step up from the flashless, 2-megapixel camera found on previous Instincts, also from Sprint, including the S30 version now in our Ratings, available to subscribers. We’re evaluating the Instinct HD now, and will post full test results on it to our Ratings later this month. Meantime, our initial results on its imaging are promising, albeit with a few quibbles. The new Instinct’s camera is easy to access, thanks to a dedicated camera button, conveniently located on the lower right side of the phone. Pushing the button activates the camera’s still mode. Tapping a camera icon on the upper left of the largish (1.78 x 2.66 in.) display switches the camera to video mode. Tapping again summons controls for auto-focus, exposure, and other camera functions. The Instinct HD claims it can record video resolution of 1280 x 720p, which is a true HD format—although, as we often point out, HD format alone does not assure images of pristine, high-definition quality. To assess quality, we shot a series of videos on the Instinct and hooked it up to a 50-inch Panasonic plasma television using the optional ($30) HDMI cable. Our findings: Color was good in the MPEG4 videos, though they lacked fine detail and texture. They blurred even more when we panned the camera to the left or right. In short, they couldn’t rival the image quality you’d enjoy from full-sized HD camcorders in our Ratings, available to subscribers. But such camcorders are much bigger and pricier than the Instinct HD, and do nothing except shoot video and stills. The high-def video quality of the Instinct was comparable to what you’d get from a standard-definition pocket camcorder, such as the Flip. And that's still way ahead of the video we've seen any other camera phone. A few details and quibbles: The HDMI cable has a proprietary connector that works only with the Samsung HD, so you may have trouble finding a replacement if it's lost while you're on vacation. You can't use the cable for showing stills on your TV. If your TV has an SD memory-card slot, you can play photos and videos off of the phone's 4GB microSD memory card (the phone comes with an SD memory card adaptor). Unfortunately, accessing the card is a pain. You have to open the phone's back cover and remove the battery, which shuts off the phone. And the still-image performance of the Instinct? Pictures were sharp and well-defined, with good color overall on the TV screen, though shots taken in low light still looked dark—even with the flash. Camera controls were fairly responsive for a phone, with an acceptable next-shot delay. Our photo engineers are currently giving the Instinct HD's... (Read Full Article) |